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Project description: L'Amazone Érogène
The project L’Amazone Érogène is named after a monumental installation created by Prune Nourry in January 2021 and displayed under the central skylights of Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche, in Paris. The piece staged a swarm of arrows pointing towards a breast-shaped target, as well as a gigantic evocative bow. Playing with the typical symbols of the mythological figure of the Amazon, a female warrior, Prune Nourry offered a striking metaphor of breast cancer. From death, life may arise: the work of art also materialized the potentiality of procreation. The artist is a breast cancer survivor.
Outside in the windows, Prune presented a sequence of displays inspired by the geometrical works of American minimalist artists, playing with perspective and the accumulation of the exhibition's primary object: the arrow.
“Une pluie de flèches
Empoisonnées
S’abat sur ta poitrine
De guerrière désarmée
Cœur de cible
En ton sein touché
Si jeune sidérée
Incompréhensible
D’où vient la fleche
Qui est l’archer ?
(...)
Pluie de flèches
Bataille enragée
Tant et tant de poitrines
Tour à tour transpercées
Ne vous laissez pas mourir
Laissez-nous vous aimer
Tant de cordes à votre arc
Chasseresses à sein unique
Amazones héroïques
À mes yeux
Vous n’avez pas changé."
Extract of original song Amazone Érogène written by Prune Nourry, Daniel Pennac, composed by -M- feat. Ibeyi.